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Re:Show HN: Bot accepts every pull request for its own code by teraflop on Thursday April 09, 2015 @08:40PM (#9351949)
In principle, yes, if you know that the TPM's private key hasn't been compromised. At a minimum, you would need some way to verify that it's actually a tamper-resistant hardware chip, and not a software emulation.

I don't see how a software agent bidding on VPS hosting services could possibly know that.

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Re:Show HN: Bot accepts every pull request for its own code by derefr on Thursday April 09, 2015 @11:13PM (#9352389)
It could just pay humans to go verify that for it. See http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/07/no-physical-substrate-n..., or just think about the fact that services like Mechanical Turk and Magic exist.
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